Book Title: Five Great Healers Speak Here
Author(s): Nancy, Esmond Gardner
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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________________ 56 FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE welding arc-light. As best one can describe an indescribable experience, it seemed that I was dissolved in that light. It was an ecstacy, filled with an infinite and pulsing dynamic. I had an awareness of infinity. The entire essence was absolute perfection. In that second I knew the interrelationship of all people, all life, all things, all worlds, and the entire universe. There could be no separation, but only a total unity in the almighty Spirit of God, the Creator, the essence of infinite perfection. I knew without doubt that, had I been deformed or ill or in need of any kind, in that flash of perfection I would have been instantly healed. I knew there was only God, only almightiness, only eternal life, and that I was part of it, together with everyone else everywhere. The light suddenly disappeared and I was left blazing with the memory of this transcendental experience, with the knives and forks still in my hand, which I simply proceeded to put into the drawer. Then life just went on as it apparently always had without any dramatic change of any kind. I had been a business man all my life and, when the war came, like everyone else in Britain, I was conscripted. After the war, as soon as I could get free, I had a wonderful opportunity to establish a new business. Deep within me was this tremendous feeling of becoming free enough to do something of a spiritual or social nature, without knowing what it could be. I entered into a business with the hopeful commitment that it would create enough money to look after my wife and two children so that I could very soon be free of the business to do whatever needed to be done. Perhaps this prompting was to offer some kind of compensation for the terrible tragedy of the war through which the world had passed. I had to travel forty miles each morning to set the new plant in operation. I called at an Anglican or

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